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326 - Anchor's Away Part 3

Science... sort of

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4.8677 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - We're doing another Anchor-themed clip show! Following up on episodes 266 and 282, we have another round of short audio clips that Ryan created for the podcast startup Anchor under the banner of Organized Curiosity (explanation of the name here). Before we dive in, two things: the correction and the drink. The correction is an explanation of a misspelling. The drink is a Mystic Mamma IPA from Jackie O’s, it’s especially good while cooking a spicy dinner. On to the show!

00:05:01 - A flight with a window seat prompts a promotion of the Flyover Country App.

00:07:31 - It’s the Ides of March and the thought of a historic stabbing makes Ryan want to discuss the science of human blood.

00:12:56 - Better know a root: haemo-

00:15:11 - Bio bios: Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus)

00:20:46 - Bio bios: Mangrove Finch (Camarhynchus heliobates)

00:26:12 - Abby from Let Me Google That calls in to share her love of all things blood. It prompts a discussion of blood types.

00:32:29 - In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, so Ryan discusses the myth of the saint banishing snakes from the Emerald Isle.

00:36:09 - Bio bios: Brewer’s/Baker’s Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)

00:41:40 - And it’s been featured on the show before, but it never hurts to remind people of Adam Cole’s excellent (A Biologist's) St. Patrick's Day Song

00:44:15 - News you probably cannot use: Humpback whales are forming supergroups, but why?

00:49:30 - To unwind, some whalesong.

00:50:33 -Q&A: Ryan rants about supposedly “chemical-free” products, like bananas

00:56:00 - News you probably cannot use: an octopus fossil, enjoy.

01:01:31 - Q&A: Chris called in to tell us about how much he loves a Riemann surface, which Ryan cannot explain.

01:05:20 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like Ryan’s Anchor show, it’s just him alone reading out loud. This episode it’s an e-mail from Adam S. who has rediscovered the show after having not listened in a long time. Glad to have you back, Adam!

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Music credit: Feel Good (Instrumental) - Broke For Free

Transcript

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0:00.0

The audio you're about to hear was recorded in Anchor. Learn more at anchor.fm.

0:05.2

From sciencesortov.com, you're listening to Science Sort of this is episode 326.

0:24.6

Our theme this week is Anchors Away Part 3. That's right, part 3 of me featuring some of the shorter clips I did while I was producing a show for the podcast Startup Anchor, which has been doing very well.

0:36.6

And I'm still proud of the content that I made, but the model that they had at the time

0:40.4

meant that the content kind of disappeared after 24 hours, but I got to keep it.

0:43.9

I still have all the files.

0:44.9

I own it.

0:46.5

So for me, it's fun to feature.

0:49.1

Somebody wrote in after the last version of this episode, 282, I believe, to point out that I was spelling away wrong.

0:58.5

I'm spelling it away as in to go away.

1:01.1

And it turns out, I did not know this, I learned something.

1:04.0

The term actually is a naval nautical term, no great shock here, for the anchor coming up off of the top of the sea surface or the

1:15.1

seabed, I guess, the seafloor. So when the phrase anchors away was used, it meant that the anchor had

1:19.6

been lifted up enough that the vessel could now be underway. So you also have the phrase way anchor,

1:24.7

which is to bring the anchor aboard the vessel preparing for departure. So that's what that comes from. I didn't know that. I'm going to keep the spelling on

1:32.0

these episodes consistent, also in part because I started putting these episodes out when I moved

1:37.4

away from doing my anchor show. So I still think it kind of works even as a unintended pun, I'll say.

1:45.5

I'm not going to spend too much time getting into things here at the beginning and the end because it is hot. And I turn off my

1:52.5

AC and dehumidifier and fans and all the stuff that's keeping my apartment comfortable when I

1:58.6

record these things. So the sound quality is good.

2:05.9

Julie's outside with the dog right now, so I had a few minutes to lay down some tape and give you guys an intro. You'll hear in these series of clips that I started sort of making my content

2:11.8

for Anchor a little bit more thematic day to day. So it starts off with sort of a random segment that I had an idea to do

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